{"id":76668,"date":"2022-03-24T02:19:26","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T06:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=76668"},"modified":"2022-03-24T23:03:40","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T03:03:40","slug":"ranil-criticises-cabraal-for-playing-politics-at-apc-after-central-bank-governor-blames-yahapalanaya-for-current-ills-president-rajapaksa-sides-with-ranil-and-apologises-to-unp-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=76668","title":{"rendered":"Ranil  Wickremesinghe criticises  Ajith NIvard Cabraal for playing politics at APC after Central Bank Governor  blames Yahapalanaya for current ills; President Rajapaksa  sides with Ranil, and apologises to UNP leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\nPresident Gotabaya Rajapaksa had to intervene to cool tempers at yesterday\u2019s All-Party Conference (APC) after UNP Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe accused Central Bank Governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal of playing politics at a meeting convened to discuss the serious economic problems facing the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI regret that the CBSL Governor started out by blaming the previous Government for this situation. What happens if I go to respond to him and then he replies. It will end with King Vijaya saying if he did not come here, these problems would not have taken place,\u201d an irate Wickremesinghe said.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Cabraal during his briefing on the country\u2019s current economic situation blamed the previous administration for the present crisis. <\/p>\n<p>The UNP leader did not take kindly to the remarks and said the conference was convened by the President at the request made by the SLFP to discuss the economic situation in the country and ways to overcome challenges .\u201cThis is not a time to play narrow political games,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>At this juncture, the President intervened and apologised to the UNP leader if the Governor\u2019s remarks had upset him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe did not convene this meeting to blame anyone. This is not a political exercise but a genuine attempt to find a solution to the county\u2019s problems,\u201d the President emphasised.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:Daily FT<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton76668\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D76668&amp;text=Ranil%20%20Wickremesinghe%20criticises%20%20Ajith%20NIvard%20Cabraal%20for%20playing%20politics%20at%20APC%20after%20Central%20Bank%20Governor...%20&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Gotabaya Rajapaksa had to intervene to cool tempers at yesterday\u2019s All-Party Conference (APC) after UNP Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe accused Central Bank Governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal of playing politics at a meeting convened to discuss the serious economic problems facing the country. \u201cI regret that the CBSL Governor started out by blaming the previous Government &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=76668\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Ranil  Wickremesinghe criticises  Ajith NIvard Cabraal for playing politics at APC after Central Bank Governor  blames Yahapalanaya for current ills; President Rajapaksa  sides with Ranil, and apologises to UNP leader&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76668"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76670,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76668\/revisions\/76670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}